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Kirghiz ASSR

1924 CE – 1936 CE · capital Frunze

The autonomous Soviet republic that gave the Kyrgyz their first modern territorial state, the forerunner of today's Kyrgyzstan.

Origins

In the national delimitation of 1924 the Kyrgyz lands of the Turkestan ASSR were made the Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. In 1925 it was renamed the Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast and in 1926 raised to an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, with its capital at Pishpek, renamed Frunze.

Rule and society

The republic introduced Soviet administration, schools and a written Kyrgyz language, first in Arabic and then Latin script. Collectivisation and settlement of nomadic herders from 1929 brought hardship and revolt, and many fled to China. Leading Kyrgyz communists such as Yusup Abdrakhmanov were purged in the 1930s.

Decline and legacy

Under the 1936 Soviet constitution the republic became a union republic, the Kirghiz SSR. Its borders, drawn in 1924, left large Uzbek and Tajik communities inside the republic and Kyrgyz communities outside it.

Lineage

Kirghiz ASSRKirghiz SSR 1936 CE – 1991 CE

Connections (1)

Kirghiz ASSR was part of Russian SFSR1924 CE – 1936 CE

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Kirghiz ASSR. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/kirghiz-assr
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